“Our champions are world class,” offered RUFF CEO Joel Resnick.
“People came to win today, they had it in their minds to finish
quickly. Each one of these guys who won today earned the right to
be [a champion].”

Featherweight Wang Guan (6-0 RUFF) was in trouble early in the
first round of the MMA H.E.A.T. main event, spending the majority
of the frame on his back, while absorbing heavy grounded strikes
from opponent Wu ChengJie (3-1 RUFF).

Returning to his feet after escaping Wu ChengJie’s pressure on the
mat, Wang Guan landed a pair of devastating knees to the body that
sent Wu falling to the canvas. Wang then quickly pounced on the
obviously stunned Wu, delivering an attack of elbows and hammer
fists before referee Jerin Valel
called an end to the contest at 4:22 of round one.

“I’m not weak on the ground. My strength is standing, but I’m okay
on the ground,” commented Wang Guan. “I love RUFF . . . and I want
to thank my family and coaches.”

In the co-main event, Irshaad
Sayed (4-1 RUFF) boxed his way past grappler Yuan ChunBo (2-3
RUFF) to become China’s first bantamweight MMA national
champion.

Sayed delivered an impressive performance, landing significant
strikes to the head and body in high volume, while avoiding Yuan
ChunBo’s repeated attempts to bait him to the ground. Unable to
match Sayed’s power and relentless pressure, ChunBo did little
damage, eating Sayed’s crisp punches, which sent him to ground on
several occasions.

Yuan ChunBo did manage one solid ground attack in the second
stanza, catching Sayed briefly in a guillotine, even taking the
South African’s back at one point. But Sayed was too strong in the
end, reversing his position to take control from the top and land
an assault of elbows to the head. With Yuan ChunBo unable to defend
himself, referee Jerin Valel
stopped the fight at 4:22 of the second round.

“We knew what ChunBo was going to do so we worked on some
submission defenses to keep the fight standing and not go into his
guard,” commented Sayed. “We went to the floor but I didn’t panic.
It was a situation that we drilled.”

Meeting for the third time inside the RUFF cage, flyweights Zhang
MeiXuan (4-1 RUFF) and Liu PingYuan (4-3 RUFF) continued where they
left off after RUFF 5, battering each other with punches and kicks,
attempting a variety of submissions.

After Zhang MeiXuan landed a head kick to open the fight, Liu
PingYuan battled back, setting up a takedown with a punch
combination. The match quickly shifted momentum, as Zhang MeiXuan
appeared to sink in a guillotine, but Liu PingYuan escaped to take
top position.

With Liu PingYuan stuck inside half guard, Zhang MeiXuan swept to
take top position, but the contest continued to shift back and
forth at a dizzying speed, and Liu PingYuan came out of the
scramble and caught Zhang in an armbar.

Refusing to tapout, Zhang MeiXuan escaped the armbar by slamming to
Liu PingYuan to the ground, and then attempted a series of ankle
locks to no avail. Unable to find success in his submission game,
Zhang MeiXuan returned to his feet before diving back into top
position to deliver a brief ground and pound.

Zhang MeiXuan then pulled out of Liu PingYuan’s guard, dropped
back, and took the ankle one more time. Again, Liu PingYuan rolled
to escape, but with no real estate remaining in the cage, he was
caught, and tapped out due to heel hook at 3:11 of round one.

“I learned that move from my coach Vaughn
Anderson,” stated Zhang MeiXuan. “He really taught me a lot
about how to fight on the ground.”

Having already knocked Wu HaoTian out at RUFF 5, Caporal delivered
another decisive win to capture the China’s MMA national
lightweight championship.

Caporal came out patiently, using his faints to keep Wu HaoTian at
a distance. Wu HaoTian then attempted a body kick, but Caporal was
able to grab ahold of the leg and send the fight to the ground.

Caught in half guard, Caporal landed punches to the head from top
position, before passing Wu HaoTian’s guard to take side control.
From there, Caporal took Wu HaoTian’s arm. While Wu attempted to
defend the armbar, lifting Caporal up and slamming him to the mat,
he was unable to escape and tapped out due to arm bar.

“I didn’t change my game plan [from before],” stated Caporal. “I
[will] keep training; training harder . . . and I will come back
next year and take two million.”

Unlike their first encounter, which was a brutal, heavy-punching
affair, the championship bout was over almost as soon as it
started, as Zhao ZiLong immediately closed the distance on the
longer and taller Li JiXiang, using his faints to move inside and
land a huge Judo toss from the waist.

Quickly securing the mount, Zhao ZiLong landed punches to the head,
as Li attempted to defend off his back. Zhao then isolated Li’s
arm, cranking the limb back for the armbar win at 0:47 of round
one, the second fastest finish in RUFF history.

“Today’s event was broadcast live, so Wushu fans and people who
aren’t Wushu fans yet had an opportunity to see the fight,” added
Zhao ZiLong. “I’m very thankful to Joel Resnick for starting RUFF
and giving us this platform for MMA in China.”

The first event of its kind worldwide, the RUFF Super Fight
concludes the promotion’s first full MMA season with five brand new
champions now in place. Heading into its second year, RUFF will
look to further develop Chinese MMA by opening up a welterweight
division prior to the next Super Fight.

“We did what everybody said we wouldn’t do. Everybody said we’re
never gonna get the permit, we got the permit. Everybody said
you’re never gonna make it past RUFF 2, we made it well past RUFF
2. Everybody said you’re never gonna do the championship, you’re
never gonna be on television. Everything was never, never, never,
never. We went against what everyone said and thanks to the teams
and the fighters we did it,” expressed Resnick. “We still have so
much work to do . . . we’re gonna go ahead again with another
reality show, we’re also gonna go ahead with a weekly TV show about
MMA. We’re trying to add more weight classes . . . so if you all
think you are the best you’re more than welcome to come and fight
in RUFF.”